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Nigerians take a lot of
pride in settling, vacationing, and bragging about visiting western nations just
to increase their status in the eyes of those who care to notice. Many who do
not even have a passport or know what a boarding pass is would even convince you
that they have been to nations such as the United States, England, France,
Russia, or Germany. What they fail to realize or study is that no oppressed
nation became great until the people (not the military or a foreign force)
toppled their government and defined their nation for themselves.
The people of the
nations we love to travel to simply marched to the palaces or government houses,
collected the ruling class, and tried them publicly in court. Those who were
found guilty of treason or corruption were either executed or imprisoned
severely. This served as a deterrent against bad governance, greed, corruption,
and exploitation of the people. Instead, it gave rise to constitutions,
accountability, democracy (government of the people, by the people, and for the
people), and term leadership rather than royalty or oligarchy. The constitution
was a contract written by the people for the government. It was the people
hiring some of its members to be their government for a certain term and give
accounts on how they utilized their resources. In order to maximize good
governance and resource utilization to the fullest, power was given to the towns
or counties (Local Government Areas), but was supervised by state and federal
laws to make sure no non-citizen of the town or county was mistreated
economically, politically, or socially. This was done to promote productivity
through competition and build a nation on plenty. This is why the western
nations are successful.
In Nigeria, BENDEL used
to (or still) have the highest cut-off mark in Common Entrance and JAMB, but are
supposed to be the fewest. In NYSC, Niger-Delta graduates are posted far away
from the oil so that they cannot build a network in NNPC or be retained as
employees in favor of mainly the Islamic North. Corrupt Government officials
will steal billions of dollars from the people to hide in foreign banks, but the
judicial system is always unable to punish them to serve as a deterrent to the
future generations. Instead, we have young Nigerian boys aspiring to become
fraudsters and our girls aspiring to date or marry them against the good morals
of any civilized society. We even had the Chief Justice lying to the people
that a President that is supposed to be in a comma is well and the Speaker of
the House is blocking impeachment processes against a President that cannot even
address his nation behind the cover of a radio. How can Nigeria replicate the
process of the western world to make Nigeria a nation of the people, for the
people, and by the people?
First, eight members of
the people, with 2 from each region, should organize a month this year as a
month to shut Nigeria down and transfer power to the people. That month should
not only be made public, but it should also be a month that all or most of
Nigeria march to Abuja and Aso Rock to relieve all federal officers from their
duties. Their passports should be seized. They should also be arrested and
then tried. They should be given enough notice to run out of the country if
they can to avoid bloodshed or risk been arrested and tried. The military and
police will have to decide if they work for the government or for the people.
They will decide if they want to help kill Nigerians or built Nigeria, but if
the people prevail, then they will be tried along with the government for murder
and obstruction of justice. On that month, there shall be no work, school,
travel, or business. It is basically a month where Nigeria is on a standstill
for the people to take over Nigeria. I recommend from the west, Nobel Literate
Wole Soyinka and Governor Fashola of Lagos. From the east, I recommend Dr.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweale of the World Bank and Former Governor Donald Duke of Cross
Rivers. The south should have a respectable MEND leader and Professor Sunday
Iyahen (Local politician, former Chair of ASUU and Math Department in UNIBEN).
From the North, I would prefer Nuhu Rabadu of the EFCC and Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai,
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The Political & Spiritual Purpose of the
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Second, after Abuja and Aso Rock have been taken over, and all possible federal
officers are arrested by the people, these eight people have the responsibility
as interim federal government to re-write the constitution on behalf of the
Nigerian people publicly. This will be an agreement from the people to the
local, state, and federal government on how they want to be governed. Power
must be given to the locality and the locality must pay tax to the state and
federal government (maybe 5% and 10% of revenue respectively). It should also
rotate the Presidency between
North, East, South, and West, all government levels MUST reserve 50% of office
for women, and public background check and scrutiny must be demanded for all
potential officers before they can even campaign or be appointed. Nobody shall
be allowed to hold office in Nigeria if there is past evidence of unfaithfulness
towards the Nigerian people even locally.
Third,
all past and present officers from the federal, state, and local levels should
be arrested and tried. The constitution should also provide the necessary
punishment for various levels of corruption and bad governance. Those we
allowed to escape to prevent bloodshed should be repatriated for trial or
arrested by Interpol. All monies recovered must be returned to the
treasury and divided equally among the local government areas and all properties
sized should be auctioned off to the highest bidder so that it can never be
recovered by the corrupt officer or their descendants even if the properties are
abroad.
Fourth,
re-establish INEC for free and fair elections. There should be no political
party and no one should use his or her own money to campaign. Everyone who is
interested in campaigning for office should simply register with INEC, declare
all his or her assets publicly, pass a public scrutiny test for past
malpractices against the people or business, and raise his own campaign funds
from his supporters. Each supporter may not be allowed to give more than N15,
000 ($100) towards any candidate and must support only one candidate per
election. We can have any number of candidates who believe they can do the job,
but only the top 10 will be allowed to have a re-election after counting the
votes. For the Presidency, it should start with the South, then the East, the
West, and then the North again. We will begin with a woman President and a man
Vice President, and then the next will be the reverse and so on. Both the
President and Vice President will come from the same region, but the cabinet
members, House of Representatives, judges, and ministers, will be exactly equal
in terms of the four regions, gender, and religion (Christian and Muslim). Each
region has one term of 4 years only; the ministers must be expert in that field
and come from the region where most of those resources come from if necessary.
The West can always lead education or technology, the East can head power if
coal is now required for green energy and electricity, the North can have
agriculture, but petroleum is for the South.
Last,
every local area or town is responsible for their water, light, schools, police,
markets, farms, prices, development, parks, roads, and industries, but pay tax
to the state and federal government in case of national emergency and national
development. |
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